Comments on: Rest amid chaos… http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/rest-amid-chaos/ Creativity, Faith, and Culture in the City Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lon http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/rest-amid-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-23944 Lon Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:20:49 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/?p=1157#comment-23944 fantastic thoughts alan! fantastic thoughts alan!

]]> By: Alan http://solarcrash.com/2008/09/rest-amid-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-23828 Alan Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:06:37 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/?p=1157#comment-23828 Hahah... Well, this is how I see it. There's the theological standard of God's sabbath. But if you move it to the dangerous realm of principle, you'll see that sabbath is the whole rest,reflection,seeing-your-place-in-God's-big-picture-humbly bit. So the practical realization is that different strokes for different folks - not everyone sabbaths (in principle) on a weekly basis. And even those that do, if they are church servants, don't do it on Sunday. Like pastors, many congregants work more on Sunday then on a Monday. So, while the farmer might be the last person who sabbaths a la biblical tradition (once a week for a day), today's Christian cubicle monkeys do so differently. One friend, who is a fantastic Christian Educator, sabbaths once a quarter by not going to church and enjoying the day, at home, stopping. I think that's fair. Rest and wholeness is more about knowing who you are, who God is, the whole serenity prayer bit, without getting lazy, and changing the world, but putting that responsibility in God's hands. It's what I call theological tension. Pulses that pull in sometimes opposite, but ultimately balanced ways. Anyway, that's a not-so-brief thought on it. Good luck :) Hahah… Well, this is how I see it. There’s the theological standard of God’s sabbath. But if you move it to the dangerous realm of principle, you’ll see that sabbath is the whole rest,reflection,seeing-your-place-in-God’s-big-picture-humbly bit.

So the practical realization is that different strokes for different folks – not everyone sabbaths (in principle) on a weekly basis. And even those that do, if they are church servants, don’t do it on Sunday. Like pastors, many congregants work more on Sunday then on a Monday.

So, while the farmer might be the last person who sabbaths a la biblical tradition (once a week for a day), today’s Christian cubicle monkeys do so differently. One friend, who is a fantastic Christian Educator, sabbaths once a quarter by not going to church and enjoying the day, at home, stopping. I think that’s fair.

Rest and wholeness is more about knowing who you are, who God is, the whole serenity prayer bit, without getting lazy, and changing the world, but putting that responsibility in God’s hands. It’s what I call theological tension. Pulses that pull in sometimes opposite, but ultimately balanced ways.

Anyway, that’s a not-so-brief thought on it. Good luck :)

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